Fifteen faculty members from West Windsor-Plainsboro schools who will participate in seminars being offered by Princeton University’s 2005-06 “Teachers as Scholars” program.##M:[more]## They include Shaun Andolina, “The Nature and Use of Human Language;” Tobi Berk Arias, “Technology in American Life;” Virginia Baner, “Search for Life in the Universe;” Joseph Bossio, “Why Can’t the United States Get Its Act Together with the International Human Rights System?;” Tina Carr, “Ancient Egypt and its Hieroglyphs;” Kathryn Doby, “Impressionism in Focus: Monet and Pissarro;” and Alice Eckel, “Persuasion and Propaganda.”
Also Raye Harrell, “Children, Grownups, and Wild Things: Classics by Sendak, Kipling, Jarrell, and E.B. White;” Barbara Jetton, “Poetry and Simplicity;” Mary Menna, “Fast Talking Dames and Democratic Culture;” Rochelle Newman, “Cain and Abel;” Julie Norato, “Engineering in the Modern World;” Lorraine Sieben, “Salem Witch Trials;” Sarabell Stoll, “Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales;” and Sharon Strachan, “The Process of Scientific Discovery.”
The program’s partnership between Princeton University and surrounding school districts, promotes life-long learning by teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. The program began at Harvard University in 1996, and has grown to include colleges and universities across the country. Now in its sixth year at Princeton University, it was originally launched with support from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
